Do you know where the 200 missing British tourists are now?

* Crikey not cricket!

Cricket biba, you been looking in my fridge again? All from Borough market. The 36 month comté is divine!

Didn't the virus all kick off back here last year when a British tourist returned from a Swiss ski resort, or Austrian?

I think an analysis of the genetics of the virus has proved that there were many sources for the virus, Ellianne
The study by the Covid-19 Genomics UK consortium (Cog-UK), completely quashes the idea that a single "patient zero" started the whole UK outbreak.

The analysis also finds China, where the pandemic started, had a negligible impact on cases in the UK.
Instead those initial cases came mostly from European countries.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52993734

I'm sure it was here before then but unidentified (just conjecture).

Chewbacca

^Money chewbacca?^

Surely not Ellianne? They'd not put monetary gain over the safety of both tourists and Swiss nationals?

Hmmm. I'm not going to comment here.

All of the people on their skiing holiday must have known they were taking a risk

Indeed they were PamelaJ1 but they wouldn't have been able to if the ski resorts had been closed, as they were across the rest of mainland Europe.

Callistemon

Ellianne we don't put butter on, just jam and cream.
Butter on fruit scones.

Butter on everything for me, even with salt crystals. I spent my formative years in Brittany, and my fiancés parents were dairy farmers. Lashings of it!

Money chewbacca?

Surely not Ellianne? They'd not put monetary gain over the safety of both tourists and Swiss nationals?

Ellianne we don't put butter on, just jam and cream.
Butter on fruit scones.

GagaJo

We made cheese last time we went to Verbier. Didn't get to taste it because it wasn't delivered before we left, but the ripening rooms smelled wonderful, although the students weren't keen!

A lot of Swiss cheese sold in UK is for export market and not well matured. Very few places sell 'the real thing' - perhaps the best being the Cheese place near Burough Market in Southwark.

Earlier this year we had to isolate in a hotel room in Perth until we got on a plane back to the U.K., we had been in Aus for 2months! That was definitely a backdated rule.
We hadn’t heard of Covid till we had already arrived in Aus.

All of the people on their skiing holiday must have known they were taking a risk.

Didn't the virus all kick off back here last year when a British tourist returned from a Swiss ski resort, or Austrian?

Money chewbacca?

Is it worth considering that, if Switzerland had closed its ski resorts, as other European countries have done in an effort to control the pandemic, there would have been no tourists there in the first place? Austria, France, Germany & Italy closed their ski resorts to everyone except local people, and for 24th December only, until the New Year when they'll 're evaluate their position 're the COVID rates. I wonder what impelled Switzerland to open theirs?

I live in Devon but have to adapt my cream teas à la Cornwall because I like butter first, then jam, then cream. If you put the cream on top of the butter it is fat overload.

Anyway, where's the croissants, petits pains and hot Swiss chocolate for my breakfast?

Do you think they've bumped into the royal Yorks yet?

Where are they now?
Surely queuing at the Channel Tunnel along with the queues of lorries coming the other way and (not) supplying our fresh fruit and veg?

Callistemon

Ellianne

That guy at the Zürich cheese shop certainly knows his cream teas! Clotted cream first, jam on top!

Noooo!

Nothing wrong with that. The age old question of whether it's cream or jam on top is often simply down to whether you're in Devon or Cornwall: in Devon the tradition is cream first, then jam on top; in Cornwall it's jam first with cream on top. So the fellow in Zurich is serving a Devonshire Cream Tea

Yes, fine them mokryna.
The trouble you have there though is that when you consider the cost of a skiing holiday, a fine will only seem like peanuts to them.

The BBC mentioned the problem this morning on the radio. Some of the tourists are demanding their money be refunded. As the Swiss government have their private addresses I hope all the countries they travel through will fine them. I have lived through two very strict lockdowns when I needed dated and signed documents to leave home and now a curfew in order to curtail this spread.

I do hope his scones are plain and not fruit ones.

(Head in hands)

Callistemon

Ellianne

That guy at the Zürich cheese shop certainly knows his cream teas! Clotted cream first, jam on top!

Noooo!

He is from Yorkshire- go figure.

I like Marmite but I believe because I hadn’t had Marmite for years, I became allergic to it.☹️

Ellianne

That guy at the Zürich cheese shop certainly knows his cream teas! Clotted cream first, jam on top!

Noooo!

I missed Bisto for gravy making.

Oooo no. I didn't know there was such a thing. My students have tried my Marmite and hated it. None of them mentioned a local alternative.